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On April 19, 2020, Plaintiffs Law Office of Sabrina Damast, Eye Land Optometry, BNG Restaurant Group Inc., and Umezu Enterprises LLC filed their putative class action in the United States District Court, Central District of California (case number 2:20-cv-03591) against a national lender. Plaintiffs are represented by the Stalwart Law Group. Plaintiffs are small businesses located in Southern California who… Read More

On May 12, 2020, ImpAcct, LLC, filed a class action lawsuit against a number of defendant-lenders in the United States District Court, District of Colorado (case number 1:20-cv-01344). Plaintiff is represented by the Shuman, Glenn & Stecker, Geragos & Geragos, P.C., Zimmerman Reed LLP, Graylaw Group, Inc., and Dhillon Law Group Inc. firms. Plaintiff is an accounting company based in… Read More

On April 19, 2020, Plaintiffs BSJA, Inc. and Alexhd, LLC, filed a class action lawsuit against a national lender in the United States District Court, Central District of California (case number 2:20-cv-03588-ODW-JC). Plaintiffs are represented by the Stalwart Law Group. Plaintiffs allege that the defendant-lender reshuffled PPP applications and failed to make loans on a “first come, first served basis”… Read More

On April 20, 2020, Outlet Tile Center filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, Central District of California (case number 2:20-cv- 03603) against a national lender and the Small Business Administration (named as the United States of America). Plaintiff was represented by Tauler Smith LLP. The complaint was dismissed on April 28, 2020. The named plaintiff… Read More

Brunner Accounting Group filed a class action lawsuit in the United States District Court, Central District of California, on May 8, 2020 (case number 2:20-cv-04235) against a number of defendant-lenders. Plaintiffs are represented by Graylaw Group, Inc., and Dhillon Law Group Inc. The named plaintiff is a sole proprietorship that allegedly provides tax and accounting services in Glendale, California. Plaintiff… Read More

Attorneys from Severson & Werson’s Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Group went all-in for this year’s Data Privacy Day 2020. In the Firm’s San Francisco office, Joseph Guzzetta (CIPP/US; CIPP/E) and Evelina Manukyan (CIPP/US; CIPP/E) passed their Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) certification from the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).   In the Firm’s Orange County office, Genevieve Walser-Jolly (CIPP/US),… Read More

Effective January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act imposes liability on businesses for a data breach that results from the failure to maintain reasonable security procedures and practices.  The CCPA’s liability for such a data breach can be daunting, up to $750 per person.  Accordingly, since the CCPA’s enactment, compliance practitioners have advised their clients to shore up their… Read More

The American Bar Association's Consumer Financial Service Committee published Genevieve Walser-Jolly's and Scott Hyman's article entitled "The California Consumer Privacy Act's 30-Day Right to Cure" in its Winter Newsletter on December 05, 2019.  A copy of the Article can be found at: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/committee_newsletters/consumer/2019/201911/consumer/ Read More

View full article here.  Scott J. Hyman is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (U.S.) and is the Data Protection Officer and Vice Chair of the Financial Services Practice Group of Severson & Werson, P.C. Mr. Hyman is a member of the Executive Committee of the Conference on Consumer Finance Law, and specializes in representing automobile finance companies and consumer lenders.… Read More

Yesterday we joined 90 other law firms in eight countries as we all give back to our respective communities through service projects. Thank you to Hogan Lovells for hosting the San Francisco event! And thank you UnitedWayDHC for helping coordinate the Orange County event at Paul Revere Elementary! Read More